Expunging Walter Mzembi from PM’s meeting with USA President riles State media.

Exposed Zanu PF War Collaborator and Zimbabwe Presidential Mole planted in the Premier's delegation was barred from eavesdropping on discussions between the Zimbabwe Premier and the USA President

After spending the better part of the past fortnight selling the Premier as an errand boy of the octogenarian President of Zimbabwe dispatched to undo the sanctions crippling the President’s movement to the Western nations, the Herald is bemoaning that trusted presidential escort Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi strategically assigned to shadow the Premier on the current mission to Western nations was expunged from eavesdropping discussion between the Premier and the USA President.

Obama bars Mzembi bemoaned the herald after the stalker failed to feed the National paper with the inner titbits of discussions that transpired between the USA President and the so called Zimbabwe President Sanctions and aid emissary Premier Morgan Tsvangirai.

Worse the USA president hastily cancelled... .the media brief that had been pencilled in to follow the meeting blanking any chance the Zanu PF appendage to the delegation had of gaining insight on what transpired in the Oval office meeting no matter how scant.

Walter Mzembi is the current Minister of Tourism. A former war collaborator from Masvingo, Mzembi is being sold to the nation by a press that knows little if anything at all about him as one of the moderates’ reform minded offerings that Zanu PF seconded to Minster in the coalition government.

But for those of us who know him better Mzembi is not a moderate reform minded Zanu PF cadre but a silent assassin with close CIO ties.

When his father passed away in 1997, may his soul rest in peace the house he rented from Mr Chigovanyika opposite Widdcombe primary school was flooded with CIO operatives, Security Chiefs, War veterans, State media chiefs including Tarzen Mandizvidza, Reuben Barwe and Happyton Muchechetere and Government tents were erected for mourners as is the norm at State funerals.

He was then not a Senior Civil servant, Minister or Member of Parliament but a Marketing Director of Ag-Venture (Pvt.) Ltd having left Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd, where as General Manager and with Leo Mugabe, they had stripped the hitherto vibrant steel works company to a shell.

Whatever reasons the USA President’s security had for barring Mzembi from the Oval office meeting with the Zimbabwe Premier- we hope it was not from effective intelligence they had gathered about Mzembi’s close links with the notorious Zimbabwe CIO- it has raffled feathers at the State media confirming the spying mission he is serving on the Premier’s delegation.

Mzembi is the Presidential mole that was attached to the Premier’s retinue to feedback the State media with information they have been using to sabotage the mission by reporting it as a loathed Presidential Mission that he was in full control of and knew exactly what who in the delegation had said when and to who.

With the Presidential spy expunged from the meeting facts of what transpired became impossible to obtain for the state media and it really hurt that they could not spin the events to the advantage of the on-the-ball president as they had done on previous encounters between the Premier and the Netherlands Head of State.

The State Media was left to speculate on what could have caused the USA President to announce the US$73 million additional aid and why it had been channelled through the Aid agencies and not the coalition government.

Minute details about how the Premier had turned the tables against the boastful Zimbabwe President by excluding his spy were analysed leading to the unsubstantiated conclusion that the premier may be encouraging the kingpin of Western policy on Zimbabwe to withhold desperately sought after aid to force Mugabe to concede further political space for the Premier’s party.

The fact is the barring of Mzembi has shown that the USA brooks no nonsense of entertaining representatives of human rights violators in their offices be they appended to morally upright leaders or not.

It is unlikely Mzembi will be allowed into future meetings of the Premier with remaining Heads of State he is scheduled to visit and that is alarming for the Zanu PF propaganda machinery planted in State Media.

Even more alarming was the fact that the USA President redefined the mission as the Zimbabwe Premier’s and not the State visit it had been sold as by the State media.
That statement distanced the USA from association with Mugabe through the conduit of the Premier’s office and spells doom for Zanu PF’s intended claim to credit for any of the Premiership successes at the same time it closes the door on intended factual claims the media was preparing to claim had caused any failures of the Premier’s mission.

It is no longer possible to claim that the west denied the Zimbabwe government aid and the lifting of illegal sanctions because of the land reform dispute because the spy that was supposed to vouch for that- Walter Mzembi- will be relying on hearsay.

The Ministry of information that ignored a request for information officers to be assigned to the premier’s mission because the most reliable are reserved for the President and assigning them to the premier would send the wrong signal that the Premier commands equal powers to those of the President, must now be scratching their heads bold pondering what to do next to ensure they obtain first hand information about the Premier’s discussions with Western Heads of State.
The alternative use of embassy information attaches to cover for the State media has already proved inadequate after they were excluded from the Finance Minister’s previous entourage in the USA.

That leaves Premier’s Chief spokesman James Maridadi and or Secretary in the Premier’s office Ian Makone as the only legitimate sources of information about discussions between the Premier and his hosts that the State Media can rely on given its frosty relations with foreign correspondents.

And yet State media relations with the duo are not anymore better than the relations they have with foreign correspondents.
Interesting!

How can a well meaning President openly spy on his very own head of government and expect to be taken seriously in a coalition government relationship?